logging in or signing up What Is Psychology MeaghanCaitlyn Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 55 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: June 09, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript What Is Psychology?: What Is Psychology? Chapter 1Psychology: : Psychology: Scientific study of behavior and mental processes by an organism’s physical, state, mental state and external environment. 4 goals Describe Understand Predict Control/ModifyGoals : Goals “ Freida is always on my back about the way I eat.” (Describe) “She’s a health nut.” (Understand) “If I don’t do something, I’m going to be nagged for the rest of my life.” (Predict) “I’ll eat wheat germ and drink carrot juice once a week, and maybe that will buy me some peace.” (Modify)What is “psychobabble”? : What is “psychobabble”? Pseudoscience Quackery covered by a veneer of psychological language What is the harm in accepting an explanation of human behavior that has no evidence to support it? Horoscopes No actual evidence Occasional correct guesses are due to vagueness, shrewd guesses, or inside information.Wilhelm Wundt: Wilhelm Wundt Founder Founded psychology in 1879 Had studied medicine and philosophyPerspectives: Perspectives Biological A psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts. Learning A psychological approach that emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a person's or animal's actions; it includes behaviorism and social-cognitive learning theories.Perspectives (cont.): Perspectives (cont.) Cognitive A psychological approach that emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving, and other areas of behavior. Sociocultural A psychological approach that emphasizes social and cultural influences on behavior.Perspectives (cont.): Perspectives (cont.) Psychodynamic A psychological approach that emphasizes unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the movement of instinctual energy.Critical Thinking : Critical Thinking The ability and willingness to assess claims and make judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotion or anecdote.Guidelines to Critical Thinking: Guidelines to Critical Thinking Ask questions Define the problem Examine the evidence Analyze assumptions and biases Avoid emotional reasoning Don’t oversimplify Consider other interpretations Tolerate uncertaintyCritical thinking and peanuts: Critical thinking and peanuts Do you think he used any of the guidelines for critical thinking? You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
What Is Psychology MeaghanCaitlyn Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 55 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: June 09, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript What Is Psychology?: What Is Psychology? Chapter 1Psychology: : Psychology: Scientific study of behavior and mental processes by an organism’s physical, state, mental state and external environment. 4 goals Describe Understand Predict Control/ModifyGoals : Goals “ Freida is always on my back about the way I eat.” (Describe) “She’s a health nut.” (Understand) “If I don’t do something, I’m going to be nagged for the rest of my life.” (Predict) “I’ll eat wheat germ and drink carrot juice once a week, and maybe that will buy me some peace.” (Modify)What is “psychobabble”? : What is “psychobabble”? Pseudoscience Quackery covered by a veneer of psychological language What is the harm in accepting an explanation of human behavior that has no evidence to support it? Horoscopes No actual evidence Occasional correct guesses are due to vagueness, shrewd guesses, or inside information.Wilhelm Wundt: Wilhelm Wundt Founder Founded psychology in 1879 Had studied medicine and philosophyPerspectives: Perspectives Biological A psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts. Learning A psychological approach that emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a person's or animal's actions; it includes behaviorism and social-cognitive learning theories.Perspectives (cont.): Perspectives (cont.) Cognitive A psychological approach that emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving, and other areas of behavior. Sociocultural A psychological approach that emphasizes social and cultural influences on behavior.Perspectives (cont.): Perspectives (cont.) Psychodynamic A psychological approach that emphasizes unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the movement of instinctual energy.Critical Thinking : Critical Thinking The ability and willingness to assess claims and make judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotion or anecdote.Guidelines to Critical Thinking: Guidelines to Critical Thinking Ask questions Define the problem Examine the evidence Analyze assumptions and biases Avoid emotional reasoning Don’t oversimplify Consider other interpretations Tolerate uncertaintyCritical thinking and peanuts: Critical thinking and peanuts Do you think he used any of the guidelines for critical thinking?